‘What I’m asking is, are you staying away from something?’
‘Away? More like the opposite.’

From a faint memory before birth grew a destined meander.

Uprooted from his established routines, Icek strolled across the country and reached a rolling countryside. Lost in the rustic and numinous place, he collides with Meir, a free-spirited boy of the same age. Their conflicting paths gradually merge as they are drawn toward Long Island, a place surrounded by the unrestrained awe of mother nature, which calls out to the innermost circle they both possess.

：我是想問，你是不是在遠離什麼？
：遠離？我總覺得正好相反。

懷抱著難以言明的感應，艾瑟一人離鄉背井，跋涉來到了東部的荒野。
此處的自然並非僅散發著田園之詩的柔情，而更潛沉著帶有野性的靈動召喚。
結識了當地同齡的民宿之子梅野後，兩人看似迥異的道路逐漸合一。他們決意一同前往長島一睹亟欲親臨的景色，也在旅途之中發現存藏在彼此深處的同源記憶。

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